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Rapid suicide by cop is not an option for a totalitarian regime.

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`22 doesn't seem too "old" to me.

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In the current environment and CBA, it might as well be 'on death's doorstep'-- its not just old, its almost prohibitive.

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Obama, you just couldn’t see it

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He never had facial hair, but he sure had a beard.

You start with a faulty presumption:

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Take into account the U.S. doesn’t have the same infrastructure as China to mass produce these shoes

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...and yet wonder why an American product can be competitively priced.

The secret is that a lot of American industry that has previously been outsourced to the third world has become much more competitive, when American technological innovation is applied to it in search of shorter supply chains.

You combine that with absolutely exploding labor costs in many locations where we previously took advantage of low wage work, and the disparity of infrastructure rapidly becomes a dissipating myth; the primary thing keeping much of American manufacturing from reshoring at this point is sunk industrial plant cost, and even then, you are seeing things like the return of garment manufacturing still slowly happening.

Will it ever happen at scale with all shoes? Probably not-- but the ability to compete on a more equal footing, where the disparities are measured in a few percent, are going to keep proliferating and expanding.

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Seems a little shitty to be jumping around in joy for another team after getting bounced as a two seed a day ago

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If you can't get excited for your own son's success and accomplishments as he achieves in your own footsteps, I really hope you don't have kids.

I guess the juice isn't as good this year.

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This is a bummer, used to watch him on that sports reporters show with Dick Schapp.

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Fun fact, the Sports Reporters show has been off the air for almost 8 years now

How could they tell?

It always smells like that.

Lost my mom a couple of years ago, at 89. She was a big part of my sports-fandom, as my Dad was not as into competitive sports-- always more a hunting and fishing guy. She got tossed from a Junior High basketball game crowd at 85, where the refs sucked and were getting after her granddaughter.

You never get over losing your Mom-- but cherish those great memories.

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most intel chips are made in the USA as it is.

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Most chips isn't what we're talking about. We're talking about the high end stuff that lets us continue to innovate and create and expand the horizons of technology.

America does fine with mid line computer processor creation. That's not the issue we are talking about at all-- hell, we can get cheap low quality chips from a dozen sources,

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Its the smaller companies that cant afford to run their own fabrication that use TMSC and other Asian contract fabrication.

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For lower end TMSC stuff, sure. But what we are talking about when we talk about American chip dependence, is the utter top end stuff-- which nobody else, anywhere in the world can do yet.

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We have plenty of expertise, and billions of dollars are thrown around like chump change in this country

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We don't have that expertise yet; we are in the process of spending about 65 billion on rectifying this, with the TMSC Arizona projects that are just now getting high end chip production underway, and that will take a decade to get operating at scale and without current dependence on Taiwanese expertise. We're literally doing what we need for chip independence, and have been working towards it for years-- but its not happening soon. It'll be a minute.